The F Scale measures implicit authoritarian trends without content-laden items

Evidence

With the F Scale the Berkeley researchers believed that they were moving to the level of personality. While the scale items are statements of opinion and have the same form as items on the A-S, E, and PEC scales they do not make assertions about minority groups or about political and economic issues. The scale is intended to measure implicit authoritarian or antidemocratic trends in a personality, trends rendering the personality susceptible to explicit Fascist propaganda. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 468

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what an ‘implicit authoritarian’ personality measure is - items without explicit minority-group or political content designed to tap latent disposition.
• XREF: connects to: The F Scale partly measured mere yielding, not authoritarian content — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 584